Physics
epub |eng | | Author:Damien Broderick

1970 The Year of the Quiet Sun Wilson Tucker When he was 17, Arthur Wilson “Bob” Tucker (1914–2006) published his first fanzine—one of the amateur magazines that helped knit together ...
( Category: Mathematical Physics July 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-18 | Author:Barbara A Hanawalt [Hanawalt, Barbara A]

A typical family scene before the open hearth. The pot sits on a trivet, and a little boy uses a bellows to keep the fire hot. The mother has her ...
( Category: Physics July 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hasok Chang [Chang, Hasok]

52. Bridgman denied that he ever intended to create a rigid and systematic philosophy. In a conference session devoted to the discussion of his ideas in 1953, he complained: "As ...
( Category: Thermodynamics July 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Richard Panek

* * * The German philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach was not the voice of Reason. By the time he had risen to prominence, in the 1870s, the Enlightenment and ...
( Category: History & Philosophy July 10,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-01 | Author:Bill Streever

Through a network of old friends and colleagues, I contact Steve Porter. Like me, he was diving in oil fields by the time he was nineteen years old. Unlike me, ...
( Category: Oceanography July 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-11 | Author:Brian Clegg

Figure 5.6. The spaceship speeds away. To keep things really simple, we’re going to measure time in years and distance in light-years (i.e., the distance light travels in a year—around ...
( Category: Quantum Theory July 1,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:David Bohm [Bohm, David]

(5a) For an attractive Coulomb force ∂V/∂r = e2/r2, so that we obtain (5b) We note that the equilibrium radius increases with the angular momen-tum, as we should expect. This ...
( Category: Quantum Theory June 30,2019 )
epub |deu | 2011-01-02 | Author:Star Trek [Star Trek]

CHAPTER SEVEN — Holodecks and Holograms "Oh, we are us, sir. They are also us. So, indeed, we are both us." —Data to Picard and Riker, in "We'll Always Have ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 30,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-12 | Author:Oi, Curran [Oi, Curran]

Neutrinos are hard to "see" because they are very weakly interacting. The only way to observe a neutrino is for it to interact with another particle. They can penetrate almost ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-28 | Author:Thomas A. Bass [Bass, Thomas A.]

9 Lady Luck Do not approach casinos with timidity or reverence. They are simply fruit-machines tended by bank clerks and mechanics. Ian Fleming With the Project’s computers performing exactly as ...
( Category: Gambling June 29,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nadir Jeevanjee

(4.54) Likewise, Thus, the Lie algebra of the group of invertible linear operators is simply the space of all linear operators! Now, consider a finite-dimensional vector space V equipped with ...
( Category: Mathematical Physics June 27,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ashish Tewari

(4.2) where is a linear differential operator , and is a functional operator. The solution for the motion coordinates, , requires a simultaneous solution to structural dynamics equations, Eq. (4.1), ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Keisuke Fujii

(3.40) The binary valuables are transformed into spin variables by . Moreover, we define a coupling constant . Then Eq. (3.40) is rewritten as (3.41) where is a normalization factor ...
( Category: Mainframes & Minicomputers June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helge Holden & Nils Henrik Risebro

(5.120) and we easily see that is strictly decreasing, unbounded, and starting at . Using (5.49) and (5.106), we find that reads (5.121) which is strictly increasing, unbounded, with minimum ...
( Category: Differential Equations June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:J. W. S. Rayleigh

( Category: Physics June 25,2019 )